Jon Porter / The Verge: Slack reports an “outage across the app” starting around 5AM ET, including issues with sending messages and search — Slack, the workplace chat app, is having some issues this morning, with messages failing to send on the service. Reports began spiking on DownDetector … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: Meta forecasts 20% revenue growth in Q3, returning to pre-pandemic and pre-ATT levels, potentially creating cover for expensive AI and metaverse investments — – Meta’s current quarter sales projection beats estimates — Company continues to increase spending on metaverse, AI Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: The EU opens an antitrust investigation into whether Microsoft abuses its dominant position by bundling Teams with Office, the first investigation in 10+ years — Probe marks the first time in a decade that Microsoft has come under formal investigation by Brussels Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: AWS VP Swami Sivasubramanian says thousands of customers, including Sony and Ryanair, have tried its AI services suite Bedrock ahead of a wider roll out “soon” — Amazon.com’s (AMZN.O) cloud division has drawn thousands of customers to try out its service vying with Microsoft … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicro reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $4.33B, beating estimates of $4.29B, and inventory rose to 126 days, up from 104 in Q2 2022 — – Revenue revenue rose 13% to $4.33 billion in second quarter — Inventory rose to 126 days at the end of the quarter Lees verder op Tech Meme
Morgan Meaker / Wired: As Israel enacts controversial judicial reforms, many tech companies are protesting or distancing themselves from the country, moving money and HQs overseas — As protests rage over Israel’s controversial reforms to the supreme court, many tech companies have been moving their money and headquarters offshore. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based AutogenAI, which offers generative AI tools to write bids and pitches, raised $22.3M; a source says the valuation was in the “hundreds of millions” — Business is regularly won and lost on the strength of a proposal. Now, a startup out of London called AutogenAI … Lees verder op Tech Meme
David Pierce / The Verge: A postmortem of Neeva, which tried to build a faster, simpler, and ad-free search engine, and how default search engine choices reinforce Google’s dominance — A couple of ex-Googlers set out to create the search engine of the future. They built something faster, simpler, and ad-free. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Morgan Meaker / Wired: Amid Israel’s controversial judicial reforms, many tech companies are protesting or distancing themselves from the country, moving money and their HQs overseas — As protests rage over Israel’s controversial reforms to the supreme court, many tech companies have been moving their money and headquarters offshore. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: The US DOJ informed a federal judge that Sam Bankman-Fried won’t face the campaign finance charge, which wasn’t part of an extradition document with The Bahamas — The Justice Department said late Wednesday that the campaign finance charge was not included in an extradition document with The Bahamas … Lees verder op Tech Meme